Housing stats

Getting better

New home sales highest since 2008
Housing starts largest since 2006
Mortgage delinquencies decline
Homes with indoor plumbing up from 55% in 1940s to 99% now
Homelssness down from 2007
Utah slashes homelessness

Getting worse

This year's Children's Defense Fund report finds roughly 1.2 million public school students were homeless in 2011-2012, 73 percent more than before the recession. More than one in nine children lacked access to adequate food in 2012, a rate 23 percent higher than before the recession.

Other

2014
Where federal housing dollars go
Half of renters pay 30% of income on rent

HOMELESSNESS

Record 53,000 homeless in NYC shelters
@amprog - Housing a homeless person costs $21,000 less than doing nothing
Homelssness down from 2007